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Page 296
... Demeter alone , and not to be touched by mortal lips . On the fourth day , we join the procession bearing the sacred basket of the goddess , filled with curious symbols , grains of salt , carded wool , sesame , pomegranates , and pop ...
... Demeter alone , and not to be touched by mortal lips . On the fourth day , we join the procession bearing the sacred basket of the goddess , filled with curious symbols , grains of salt , carded wool , sesame , pomegranates , and pop ...
Page 297
... Demeter ; by the coming of Esculapius shall all her wounds be healed ; and the change in the evening from the myste to epopta is because that now to Demeter , the cycle of her grief being accomplish- ed , the ways of Jove are made plain ...
... Demeter ; by the coming of Esculapius shall all her wounds be healed ; and the change in the evening from the myste to epopta is because that now to Demeter , the cycle of her grief being accomplish- ed , the ways of Jove are made plain ...
Page 298
... Demeter was known to her mystic worshippers , -hu- man sorrow it was which veiled the eye- lids ; toward which veiling ( or muesis ) the lotus about the head of Isis and the poppy in the hand of Demeter distinctly point . Hence the ...
... Demeter was known to her mystic worshippers , -hu- man sorrow it was which veiled the eye- lids ; toward which veiling ( or muesis ) the lotus about the head of Isis and the poppy in the hand of Demeter distinctly point . Hence the ...
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